Otamatea HarbourCare Update – 31 August 2016

Latest highlights: The planting programme – we’re nearly, nearly finished Nursery working bee The planting programme – we’re nearly nearly finished Just yesterday a team from Otamatea High School Primary Industries Class came out to McKay’s dairy farm (just up the...

Otamatea HarbourCare Update – 22 August 2016

Latest highlights: The planting programme – we’re nearly finished Nursery working bee The planting programme – we’re nearly finished What a week that was!  Wasn’t it amazing weather?  I can assure you I hadn’t made any special arrangements in that regard. On Monday, a...

Otamatea HarbourCare Update – 22 July 2016

Latest highlights: The planting programme – its happening tomorrow! Nursery happenings Subs time The planting programme – its happening tomorrow! It’s a shame the weather we are having today isn’t what has been forecast for tomorrow – apparently we are in for rain...

Otamatea HarbourCare Update – 7 July 2016

Latest highlights: The planting programme – on the ground Nursery happenings An afternoon with the Matakohe Garden Circle On the air Subs time Local government elections The planting programme – on the ground As I said in the last Update, we had a team from Spark...

Matakohe kids get their coats off

More than 90 years after our first New Zealand-born Prime Minister used the election slogan ‘Coats off with Coates’, students from his old school at Matakohe did just that as they planted trees at Ruatuna, the Coates family farm, now cared for by Heritage New Zealand....